What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Suddeutsche ...Show more
Merchants of Men: Inside the Billion-Dollar Business of Kidnapping and International Human Trafficking by Loretta Napoleoni
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring, controls it. In the early 2000s these merc ...Show more
Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
As astonishing as it is compelling - Steve Cannane's extraordinary insight into Scientology in Australia is investigative journalism at its very best. From Rugby League players trying to improve their game, to Hollywood superstars and the depressed sons of media moguls, Scientology has recruited its sha ...Show more
Big Blue Sky: A Memoir by Peter Garrett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justice; fr ...Show more
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Lisa Featherstone
$22.00 AUD
Category: Political
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it's thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of ...Show more
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such ...Show more
The Good the Bad and the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
"Since Australia's birth in 1901, twenty-nine politicians have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each Prime Minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Stre ...Show more
Not Quite Australian by Peter Mares
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
"Permanent migration has long been vital to the story of Australia. From the arrival of early settlers to waves of post-war immigration, the symbolic moment of disembarking onto Australian soil is an image deeply embedded in our nation's consciousness. Today, there are more than million temporary migran ...Show more
How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green? by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political
Red or Green? Traditionally, Australian progressives have supported the Australian Labor Party; increasingly, The Greens appeal. What are the key differences between the parties? Is greater collaboration desirable? Is it likely? Some progressives remain strongly committed to Labor or The Greens. Others ...Show more
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
$40.95 AUD
Category: Political
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more